Amburbia

Amburbia

An amburbial sacrifice, also known as amburbia or amburbale sacrum, was an ancient Roman religious festival, wherein participants made processions around their city with the beast to be sacrificed.

The word is composed of "ambio" ("I go around"), or of "amb" or "ambu", an ancient preposition signifying "around", and "urbs", "city".

Hence, also, we have "amburbiales victimæ", the victims carried along in the procession, and afterwards sacrificed.

Scaliger, in his notes on Festus, maintains the amburbia to be the same as ambarvalia.

ee also

*Ambarvalia

References

*1728
*Blount, Thomas. "Glossographia, or a dictionary interpreting such hard words...as are now used". 1656.


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